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020			_a9781139333627 (ebook)
020			_z9781107029378 (hardback)
020			_z9781316615928 (paperback)
040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP
050	0	0	_aJK2382 _b.A53 2013
082	0	0	_a324.2732 _223
100	1		_aAndersen, Lisa M. F., _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe Politics of Prohibition : _bAmerican Governance and the Prohibition Party, 1869–1933 / _cLisa M. F. Andersen.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2013.
300			_a1 online resource (328 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aThis book introduces the intrepid temperance advocates who formed America's longest-living minor political party - the Prohibition Party - drawing on the party's history to illuminate how American politics came to exclude minor parties from governance. Lisa M. F. Andersen traces the influence of pressure groups and ballot reforms, arguing that these innovations created a threshold for organization and maintenance that required extraordinary financial and personal resources from parties already lacking in both. More than most other minor parties, the Prohibition Party resisted an encroaching Democratic-Republican stranglehold over governance. When Prohibitionists found themselves excluded from elections, they devised a variety of tactics: they occupied saloons, pressed lawsuits, forged utopian communities, and organized dry consumers to solicit alcohol-free products.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781107029378
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139333627
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c37167 _d37167